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Cliff jumping with Obama
Why are Republicans playing the Democrats' game that the "fiscal cliff" is all about taxation?
House Speaker John Boehner already made the pre-emptive concession of agreeing to raise revenues. But the insistence on doing so by eliminating deductions without raising marginal rates is now the subject of fierce Republican infighting.
Where is the other part of President Obama's vaunted "balanced approach"? Where are the spending cuts, both discretionary and entitlement: Medicare, Medicaid and now Obamacare (the health care trio) and Social Security?
Social Security is the easiest to solve. So you get a sense of the Democrats' inclination to reform entitlements when Dick Durbin, the Senate Democrats' No. 2, says Social Security is off the table because it "does not add a penny to our deficit."
This is absurd. In 2012, Social Security adds $165 billion to the deficit. Democrats pretend that Social Security is covered through 2033 by its trust fund. Except that the trust fund is a fiction, a mere "bookkeeping" device, as the OMB itself has written. The trust fund's IOUs "do not consist of real economic assets that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits." Future benefits "will have to be financed by raising taxes, borrowing from the public, or reducing benefits or other expenditures."
And draining the Treasury, as 10,000 baby boomers retire every day. Yet that's off the table. And on Wednesday, the president threw down the gauntlet by demanding tax hikes now — with spending cuts to come next year. Meaning, until after Republicans have fallen on their swords, given up the tax issue and forfeited their political leverage.
Ronald Reagan once fell for a "tax now, cut later" deal that he later deeply regretted. Dems got the tax; he never got the cuts. Obama's audacious new gambit is not a serious proposal to solve our fiscal problems. It's a raw partisan maneuver meant to neuter the Republicans by getting them to cave on their signature issue as the hold-the-line party on taxes.
The objective is to ignite exactly the kind of internecine warfare on taxes now going on among Republicans. And to bury Grover Norquist.
I am not now, nor have ever been, a Norquistian. I don't believe the current level of taxation is divinely ordained. Nor do I believe in pledges of any kind. But Norquist is the only guy in town to consistently resist the tax-and-spend Democrats' stampede for ever higher taxes to fund ever more reckless spending.
The hunt for Norquist's scalp is a key part of the larger partisan project to make the Republicans do a George H.W. Bush and renege on their heretofore firm stand on taxes. Bush never recovered.
Why are the Republicans playing along? Because it is assumed that Obama has the upper hand. Unless Republicans acquiesce and get the best deal they can right now, tax rates will rise across the board on Jan. 1, and the GOP will be left without any bargaining chips.
But what about Obama? If we all cliff dive, he gets to preside over yet another recession. It will wreck his second term. Sure Republicans will get blamed. But Obama is never running again. He cares about his legacy. You think he wants a second term with a double-dip recession, 9 percent unemployment and a totally gridlocked Congress? Republicans have to stop playing as if they have no cards.
Obama is claiming an electoral mandate to raise taxes on the top 2 percent. Perhaps, but remember those incessant campaign ads promising a return to the economic nirvana of the Clinton years? Well, George W. Bush cut rates across the board, not just for the top 2 percent. Going back to the Clinton rates means middle-class tax hikes that yield four times the revenue that you get from just the rich.
So give Obama the full Clinton. Let him live with that. And with what also lies on the other side of the cliff: 28 million Americans newly subject to the ruinous alternative minimum tax.
Republicans must stop acting like supplicants. If Obama so loves those Clinton rates, Republicans should say: Then go over the cliff and have them all.
And add: But if you want a Grand Bargain, then deal. If we give way on taxes, we want, in return, serious discretionary cuts, clearly spelled-out entitlement cuts and real tax reform.
Otherwise, strap on your parachute, Mr. President. We'll ride down together.
Charles Krauthammer writes this column for The Washington Post. Email: email@example.com.


text: Back Six Symptoms You Should Never Ignore Some people rush to the doctor's office every time they feel a little ill. Others try to tough it out and hope the problem will go away. In either case, there are some symptoms no one should ignore. Many health problems do take care of themselves over time, but some symptoms may indicate the possibility of a serious condition and should be evaluated immediately by a health care provider. To determine if something could be serious, look for changes in the way your body looks, feels, or reacts. If you usually get over a cold in a few days, for instance, it's worth calling your doctor if you have a cough that lingers for a week or two, or if you have other symptoms, or chronic medical conditions. These common symptoms require immediate medical attention. Chest pain Such pain could be a symptom of indigestion, a heart attack, or another condition. Because chest pain could be serious, it should be evaluated promptly. Chest pain from a heart attack varies. Sometimes it feels like a crushing sensation, as though someone is sitting on your chest. Other times it feels like a squeezing or pressure on your chest. Sometimes it's accompanied by nausea or lightheadedness. If you notice any of these symptoms, call 911 or your local emergency number and then chew an aspirin (if you are not allergic to it) to help prevent further damage. Make sure that the emergency responders are aware that you have taken an aspirin. Coughing up blood Blood in sputum could indicate simple bronchitis or irritation of the trachea, but it could also be the result of pneumonia or lung cancer. If you're young and don't smoke, this symptom is most likely an infection, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) says, but it still shouldn't be ignored. Report this symptom to your doctor immediately. If you smoke or are an older adult, your health care provider will look closely for other causes. Blood in the urine Although it may indicate a simple bladder infection, this symptom could also mean something more serious, such as a kidney stone or even a malignancy. To find out what's going on, your doctor may order a series of tests, including urinalysis and blood tests, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Urinalysis examines the urine for red blood cells, as well as white blood cells, which are a sign of a urinary tract infection, and casts, which are clumps of cells that are a sign of kidney disease. Other tests such as X-rays, ultrasounds, or even cystoscopic exams may be necessary. A cystoscopic exam involves looking inside the bladder with a very small tube. Rectal bleeding Blood in the stool could be from hemorrhoids, or it could be caused by an active ulcer or colon cancer. Bright-red blood indicates active bleeding. If there's a lot of blood, it could be life threatening. Call 911 or your local emergency number immediately. If the amount of blood is small, you can usually be evaluated in the doctor's office, but call your doctor right away for advice. Simple tests can detect the presence of blood in the stool and estimate how much you're losing. If tests confirm bleeding, an endoscopy, colonoscopy, or sigmoidoscopy will let the doctor see what's going on. Unusual sores, lumps or lesions These symptoms usually are benign, but you should have them checked by a health care provider. If you live in a sunny climate or if you spend a lot of time outside, you should be especially wary of all kinds of skin lesions, which may indicate skin cancer. Look for sores that always seem to be irritated or moles that change size, have irregular shapes, or change color. Slurred speech and/or weakness on one side These symptoms most likely indicate you're having a stroke. Call 911 or your local emergency number immediately. Tests will indicate if you're having a stroke and, if so, what kind. Medications are available to minimize or even reverse some damage from a stroke, but they must be given promptly. Doctors also need to determine whether the stroke is caused by a blood clot or a hemorrhage, because the treatments are different. With any of these symptoms, it's important to act quickly.

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USN-3437-1: OCaml vulnerability
CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2015-8869
Total CVEs: 1
Affected VMware Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- Vulnerable Cloud Foundry components individually listed here.
- Pivotal products using CF components prior to the listed updated versions are vulnerable to this issue. See the Mitigation section below for more information.
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
- The Cloud Foundry team recommends upgrading BOSH stemcells and/or other OSS components listed here if applicable.
- Upgrade Pivotal products that use earlier versions of CF components to new Pivotal releases using new versions linked above. On the Pivotal Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information.
- Releases that have fixed this issue include:
- PCF Elastic Runtime: 1.9.43, 1.10.32, 1.11.18, 1.12.6
- PCF Isolation Segment: 1.10.24, 1.11.16, 1.12.6


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This photograph is of a Masonic Knights Templar symbol showing a cross within a crown inside a Maltese cross, which has the Latin phrase, "in hoc signo vinces." The phrase means "in this sign you shall conquer" and was used by Constantine as a military motto in the early 4th Century. The phrase was also used by the original Knights Templar military order that was founded during the Crusades. The Freemasons began using Templar rituals and symbols in the late 1700s.
Knights Templar legends and myths are quite popular in movies and books such as The Da Vinci Code, Foucault's Pendulum, National Treasure, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Some also see parallels between the Jedi Knights of Star Wars and the Knights Templar military order.
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How many calories can you burn running, walking?
When trying to lose weight and get into shape, many people turn to walking and running.
Walking and running are great cardiovascular exercises and both are convenient and fairly cheap to begin.
But how many calories can one expect to burn?
According to research by California State University and Runner's World, a person can burn about twice the amount of calories running a mile than walking a mile.
According to researchers — who studied 15 college males and 15 college females who weighed an average of 156 pounds — participants burned about 112.5 calories in 10 minutes of running, and 88.9 calories in 18:36 minutes of walking.
Whether or not you should walk or run depends on your current health and level of fitness.


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The Linux Mint project yesterday unveiled version 15 of the increasingly popular desktop operating system, with upgrades to the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments as well as new applications for managing software and drivers.
Code-named "Olivia," Linux Mint 15 is based on the most recent version of Ubuntu and will be supported until January 2014. Linux Mint 15 is in the Release Candidate stage, with a final release coming later. Linux Mint also has a version based on Debian which is released on a "semi-rolling" basis while the Ubuntu-based version mirrors Ubuntu's six-month release cycle.
"Linux Mint 15 is the most ambitious release since the start of the project," the Mint announcement states. "MATE 1.6 is greatly improved and Cinnamon 1.8 offers a ton of new features, including a screensaver and a unified control center. The login screen can now be themed in HTML5 and two new tools, 'Software Sources' and 'Driver Manager,' make their first appearance in Linux Mint."
Software Sources (or "MintSources") replaces the previous software-properties-gtk for managing software repositories. The idea was to create a more user-friendly interface:
The new Driver Manager also simplifies the process of managing drivers. "Drivers are listed by package name, and their version are clearly stated (in the case of the Nvidia drivers you can therefore choose according to a particular version instead of wondering what 'current' or 'updates' really mean)," the Mint release notes state. "Devices from popular brands (Nvidia, ATI, Broadcom, Samsung...) are illustrated with an icon."
Mint 15 has upgraded login screen applications supporting HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and WebGL which "can be used to produce beautiful animated and interactive login screens."
While Ubuntu comes with the Unity desktop environment, Linux Mint users can choose from the two primary options, Cinnamon and MATE. Each has improvements that made their way into Linux Mint 15.
In Cinnamon 1.8 the Nemo file manager's "user interface was heavily modified and its behavior was adapted to integrate better with Cinnamon." Cinnamon's new Control Center replaces the GNOME Control Center, providing a new place to manage system settings.
The new version of MATE features improvements to the file manager, workspace switcher, notifications, and window management.
You can find all versions of Linux Mint available for download on the project website.


text: Bill Cell never looked down at his right arm while the last pint of the 85-year-old's 85th gallon of blood pumped out from it on Friday. Cell is the undisputable highest-contributing donor bested his own record at the Bonfils Blood Center's Westminster, Colo., location, retaining a 15-gallon lead on the next-highest donors. Bob Roberts, north-metro Denver regional manager for Bonfils, offered to get Cell a beverage early in his 90-minute appointment – an amenity that, along with snacks, is available to every donor. 'Nah, I'm fine since you don't have bourbon,' Cell said, starting in on the story that's been heard by nearly every phlebotomist who has drawn his blood. 'That's what I miss about the old days.' Cell first gave blood in 1946, when he said cash and insurance incentives drew him to hospital blood drives. He started donating more frequently after the 1960s, though, when he received nothing in return. 'They'll tell me what my blood went for, like a cancer patient or an accident victim,' Cell said, explaining why he returns to the plastic donation beds. 'I have met a couple of people who needed it.' He recalled meeting the survivor of a car accident in Denver, who needed more than 200 pints of stored blood including Cell's. As a volunteer dry-land Navy sailor the two years after World War II, Cell and his friends from boot camp each got a shot of bourbon at hospital donation centers in addition to $25. He went as often as allowed – once every 12 weeks in the 40s. Bonfils had put in place a system of tracking blood donations by the time Thelma, his wife of 62 years on Tuesday, had birthed their three boys and Cell began donating more frequently in 1969. That was the year his donations first counted toward the Bonfils record. Since 1990, Cell said he has donated a pint of blood at least once every two weeks. Bonfils allows blood platelet donations of one pint as frequently as once a week, but caps each donor at 24 pints a year. Cell rations them. 'I think I've known Bill longer than I've known my own husband,' said Amy De-Moss, site supervisor at Bonfils in Westminster. DeMoss said the amount and frequency that Cell donates could be achieved by any typical adult, but only about 4 percent of Americans give blood. On average, DeMoss said donations drop about 20 percent during the holiday season. After the last drop of Cell's 680th pint dripped into a packet labeled 'A+' at about 11 a.m., he was greeted in the staff break room with celebratory ribs and cake. Cell tried not to spill on his lavender Bonfils shirt. He'll be back in two weeks. Alison Noon:


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Shutdown's lesson: You need an emergency fund
NEW YORK — Let the government shutdown serve as a wake-up call: You need an emergency fund.
Thousands of government workers were out of work for more than two weeks, causing many of them to fall behind on their bills. Although they will receive back pay, the event highlights how quickly, and unexpectedly, financial situations can change.
The shutdown also showed that no jobs are safe, even government positions which are normally thought of as the safest.
Most financial advisers say that you should be prepared to go without a paycheck for several months, not weeks. Here's what you need to know about building that safety fund:
— Start by adding up your expenses for necessities, such as rent, health insurance, groceries and utilities, says Mackey McNeill, a certified public accountant and president of Mackey Advisors in Bellevue, Ky. It wouldn't hurt to also add in discretionary spending, too, like going out to the movies or eating out. "Should you cut out Starbucks? Probably," says McNeill, "but a lot of people don't change their behavior."
— You need to have at least three months in expenses saved up, says Anna Behnam, a financial adviser at Ameriprise in Rockville, Md. But if you're nervous about the security of your job, you should save more. Think at least six months, especially if you've been laid off or furloughed before. "There's a chance it might happen again," says Behnam.
If you've never saved for an emergency fund before, start small. "Try saving $100 a month," McNeill says. "Don't overreach." It may take longer to save up, but putting away more than you can afford can lead to failure, and you may just quit. And don't ever take the money out.
— Always keep your emergency fund in a bank account that's easily accessible. The stock market's recent record highs may be hard to resist, but you always want to keep the fund out of stocks and in cash. "It should be in the most boring account you can find," says McNeill. That means savings accounts, even though most banks offer interest rates that are close to zero.
Behnam says that if interest rates on your bank's certificate of deposits, or CDs, are more attractive, she recommends leaving one month's worth of expenses in a savings account and the rest in a no-penalty CD. That means that you can withdraw money from it at any time, without paying a fee.
The account should be separate from your checking account and the accounts you are using to save up to purchase a home or vacation. If you decide to go with an online savings account, make sure it is linked to your primary checking account so that you can make easier transfers, says Behnam.
— If you lose your job, or find yourself furloughed for a short period time and don't have enough in an emergency fund, call the companies that you owe payments to. "Most creditors want to hear from you if you're not paying bills on time," says Hugh Anderson a Las Vegas-based managing director at financial services company HighTower. Call landlords, mortgage providers, credit cards, student loan companies and anyone you may owe money too.
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So I arrived Thursday (the 4th) and spent about 2 hours fighting the Movistar Dongle (my bad.. coming post in esquila technica)
Thursday 7PM I was up and running and managed to VPN into work and clean up Thursday's outstanding questions.
Friday again I managed to address a bunch of stuffs that would just have become tempests in a tea pot for when I return. It never fails that for every day I take off work 1.5 to 1.75 days of work accumulates.
Saturday was
This Man hired me .. He's cool fellow too...
BNN interview... Brian D
He has a wicked sense of humor as well that must now be suppressed as he has to look business like
I had my first date with Chilo..
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I was on contract for a film company (IMAX) working on some cool 3D glasses for Expo 90 in Osaka Japan. The company that won the contract (SG Smallwood and Co. a real sweat shop, still operating today) to assemble the Glasses was in Kitchener and I was working there since the first of the year (1990). While Chilo
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So Chilo receives a visit from her sister and her sister-in-law last Thursday. The three were mulling over what to do that afternoon (Chilo works until noon) when the Sister-in-law says.. Hey, today is Thursday, lets go get some groceries.. Well we were all stocked up but Chilo agreed to go anyways..
Well the local Grocery store that all 3 families attend is "Food Basics" (which is a no frills spin off of the Metro uber food corp) . This would mean a right turn from our
Well tomorrow is a manufactured holiday of the provincial government (Equal to a "State" or "Deprtmento") Called "Family day". It has been around 3 yrs now.
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Lindsay Lohan sues Amazon for selling bio of dead NYC Mayor John Lindsay, saying people associate "Lindsay" with her. http://bit.ly/LinSUIT
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Today's guest post comes from the wisdom of Toni Bernhard, a former law professor who, one fine day many years ago, went to Paris for a holiday with her husband, got sick, and didn't ever get better. As such, Toni's had to learn a lot about being a patient, as she described in her wonderful award-winning book, How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers.
In this guest post, Toni lists items that belong on a NOT-To-Do list for all those living with chronic pain or illness.
I love To-Do lists. I depended on them when I was working outside the home. I've depended on them since my bed became my office. The one difference is that, pre-illness, I had fancy notepads and appointment books in which to keep my lists. Now I scribble them on any random piece of paper I can find.
A few weeks ago, I realized I could benefit from a NOT-To-Do list that would remind me of my limitations – limitations I often ignore either because I'm in denial or because I want to please others.
Unfortunately, I always pay the price physically, and that's not good for me mentally either.
So here's a NOT-To-Do list for those who live day-to-day with chronic illness or pain (or, as is often the case, both):
I've ignored this NOT-To-Do so many times that I've lost count. It can be so hard to turn down an activity that makes me feel more like a healthy person. When I break this rule, it's as if I'm a child again, shouting at my parents: "Look at me! I can ride a bike with one hand!"
My most recent bout with ignoring my body began innocently enough about a year ago. Two friends were kind enough to coach me in learning Qigong. I learned movements with wonderful names, such as "Against River Push Boat" and "Huge Dragon Enters Sea." Then came "Ancient Tree Coils Root." You imagine that you're a strong tree, sending roots down into the ground. Unfortunately (for me), you execute this by pointing the tips of your fingers toward the ground, putting your weight all on one leg, and then squatting down on the knee of that leg.
For the first few months, I ignored the "one leg" instruction. I stood on two legs and only squatted down partway. I was listening to my body. But one day, I decided I wasn't progressing fast enough, so I picked up one leg and went all the way down on the other. My knee went "crunch" and, for several months afterwards, I was limping and had knee pain to add to my daily symptoms. Why did I ignore my body? I was frustrated by my limitations and so I rebelled. Lesson learned though: DO NOT say "yes" to an activity if your body is saying "no."
2. DO NOT call yourself names or otherwise speak unkindly to yourself.
Here's an anecdote from my book How to Be Sick:
At a retreat in the 1990s, teacher Mary Orr told this story:
"She was in the middle of a harried day in which she had too much to do and too little time in which to do it. At one point, while in her car, she realized she was talking to herself in a way she would never talk to others. I don't remember her exact words, but I remember their impact. They resonated with me because of their similarity to the way I often talked to myself:
"How stupid of me to take this route; it's always full of traffic."
"I'm so dumb, I forgot to bring my notebook."
"You clumsy idiot—you dropped your drink again."
Mary's story was a wake-up call for me. I'd never call a friend "dumb" or "stupid" or an "idiot." But I'd called myself those names. The Buddha said: "If you search the whole world over, you will find no one dearer than yourself." I decided to take his words to heart and so I began to treat myself as if I were a dear friend. The result? I felt so much better, as if I'd shed a tremendous burden—the burden of self-judgment.
A good test for whether you're treating yourself kindly is to ask if you would speak or act that way toward a loved one in need. If not, don't speak or act that way toward yourself. It's hard enough being sick and in pain. There's never a good reason to add negative self-talk into the mix.
3. DO NOT try a treatment just because someone said it cured him or her.
I have a theory about many unconventional treatments. Depending on a person's condition, it's possible to spontaneously recover from an ongoing illness. Some people do. When that happens, they attribute their recovery to whatever treatment they happened to be undergoing at the time, no matter how unconventional it was. The reason I think my theory is credible is that I suspect I'd do the same thing were I to wake up not sick tomorrow morning.
So don't assume that any seemingly magic cure is for you. Do your research, consult with those whom you trust, consider your pocketbook. I like to check my tendency to jump at treatments (I get emails almost every day telling me to try this or try that), by reflecting on how, if this really were a cure for my dysfunctional immune system, it's highly likely it would be all over the internet on sites I've come to trust.
4. DO NOT wait until the last minute to get ready for something.
Waiting too long is an invitation for a surge in adrenaline to get you through. If you're like me, that draining sensation of "coming down" off adrenaline is the first sign of a crash. When getting ready (showering and dressing for an appointment, picking up the house for visitors) try doubling the amount of time you think it will take.
5. DO NOT strive for a spotless living environment.
Corollary: DO NOT feel bad or criticize yourself for not striving for spotlessness. That would be engaging in unkind self-talk and it's already on your Not-To-Do list.
6. DO NOT "shop 'til you drop."
That's for healthy people.
7. DO NOT wear uncomfortable clothes.
Your body is already struggling. Don't subject it to restrictive panty hose, tight jeans, high heels (of if you're a man, whatever the male equivalent would be). Exception: If there's a special occasion that will give you a mental lift if you break this rule, break it. But remember your reasons for breaking it, so that you don't slip into negative self-judgment if those too-tight clothes start to chafe or those fancy-looking shoes begin to hurt.
8. DO NOT think about pleasures from your pre-illness life, freeze them in time, and assume they'd be as much fun today.
Even if you aren't sick or in pain, life is in constant flux. Among the healthy, relationships change, job conditions change, bodies change. I'm going to write about this soon in a piece I've tentatively titled, "Do You Suffer from 'Good Old Days Syndrome'?"
What would you put on your Not-To-Do list? I'm looking for more items to put on mine, so please share your thoughts.
©2013 Toni Bernhard www.tonibernhard.com
This Toni Bernhard article was originally published in Psychology Today. Thanks so much for your kind permission to repost it here for Heart Sisters readers, Toni.
Toni Bernhard's new book is titled How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow. Until forced to retire due to illness, Toni was on the faculty of the University of California – Davis School of Law, serving six years as the dean of students. Her blog, "Turning Straw Into Gold" is hosted by the website of Psychology Today. She can be found online at www.tonibernhard.com; you can also follower her on Twitter or Facebook.
NOTE FROM CAROLYN: In my book A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease, (Johns Hopkins University Press).I wrote more about how "NO" is a complete sentence for heart patients – You can save 30% off the book's cover price if you order it directly from Johns Hopkins University Press (use their code HTWN) – Or ask for it at your local library, your favourite independent bookshop, or order it online (paperback, hardcover or e-book) at Amazon.
Q: What would you include on your own NOT-To-Do list?
See also:
Top 10 tips from the author of 'How To Be Sick'
Should heart patients make a 'Bucket List'?
How working – and not working – affects heart disease risk
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It is said that the problem with the younger generation — any younger generation — is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting. Barack Obama, forever young, has convenient memory loss: It serves his ideology.
His amnesia concerning the policies that produced the robust recovery from the more severe (measured by its 10.8 percent unemployment rate) recession of 1981-82 has produced policies that have resulted in 0.1 percent economic growth in 2014's first quarter — the 56th, 57th and 58th months of the recovery from the recession that began in December 2007.
June begins the sixth year of the anemic recovery from the 18-month recession. Even if what Obama's administration calls "historically severe" weather — aka, winter — reduced GDP growth by up to 1.4 percentage points, growth of 1.5 percent would still be grotesque.
America has a continental market, a reasonably educated and remarkably — considering the incentives for not working — industrious population, an increasingly (because of declining private-sector unionization) flexible labor market, an efficient financial system, extraordinary research universities to fuel innovation, and astonishing energy abundance. Yet the recovery's two best growth years (2.5 percent in 2010 and 2.8 percent in 2012) are satisfactory only when compared to 2011 and 2013 (1.8 and 1.9, respectively).
The reason unemployment fell by four-tenths of a point (to 6.3 percent) in April while growth stalled is that 806,000 people left the labor force. The labor force participation rate fell by four-tenths of a point to a level reached in 1978, which was during the Carter-era stagflation and early in the surge of women into the workforce. There are about 14.5 million more Americans than before the recession but nearly 300,000 fewer jobs, and household income remains below the pre-recession peak.
Paul Volcker, whose nomination to be chairman of the Federal Reserve Board was Jimmy Carter's best presidential decision, raised interest rates to put the nation through a recession to extinguish the inflation that, combined with stagnant growth, ruined Carter's presidency. Then came the 1983-88 expansion, when growth averaged 4.6 percent, including five quarters over 7 percent.
Ronald Reagan lightened the weight of government as measured by taxation and regulation. Obama has done the opposite. According to the annual "snapshot of the federal regulatory state" compiled by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, four of the five largest yearly totals of pages in the Federal Register — the record of regulations — have occurred during the Obama administration. The CEI's delightfully cheeky "unconstitutionality index," measuring Congress' excessive delegation of its lawmaking policy, was 51 in 2013. This means Congress passed 72 laws but unelected bureaucrats issued 3,659 regulations.
The more than $1.1 trillion of student loan debt — the fastest-growing debt category, larger than credit card or auto loan debt — is restraining consumption, as is the retirement of baby boomers. In 2012, more than 70 percent of college graduates had student loan debts averaging about $30,000. This commencement season's diploma recipients are entering an economy where more than 40 percent of recent college graduates are either unemployed or in jobs that do not require a college degree. This is understandable, given that 44 percent of the job growth since the recession ended has been in food services, retail clerking or other low-wage jobs.
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Your program should read its input from standard input and produce output on standard output. This can for instance be done using System.in / System.out. Anything written on standard error (System.err) will be ignored. This can be used for debugging your program during development (i.e., you do not have to remove debug output before submitting if you use standard error for debug output). Of course, writing to standard error will take some runtime.
Input will always follow the input specification (so you do not need to validate the input). Your output must follow the output specification.
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Here {memlim} is the actual memory limit for the problem you are submitting to.
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We are currently using Dell PowerEdge R230 servers for judging. These are equipped with an Intel Xeon E3-1220V6 CPU running at 3.0 GHz and 8 GB RAM. A 64-bit Linux kernel is used.
We will inspect the exit code of your program. If it is non-zero, we will judge your submission as Run Time Error.
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You are tasked with writing a program that computes the difference between integers. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Well, as we will see, the problem still holds some small difficulties.
One thing to note is that the integers can be fairly large, as large as 1015, which is a lot larger than the maximum value of an int (which is 231−1). Luckily, there is a 64 bit integer type in Java, long.
Now that we have determined a suitable type, we just have to read the data. Reading is done from standard input. In this problem, we should read until the end of the file (in other problems, there might be an integer at the beginning of the input, specifying how much to read, or there might be a special indicator denoting that there is nothing more to read). Using a Scanner (which needs to be imported, since it is in the java.util package), we can do e.g.:
Now that we've read the input, it's time to actually solve the problem. Since 0 ≤ a, b ≤ 1015, we have that −(1015) ≤ a−b ≤ 1015, which means that there is no danger of overflow involved in just subtracting the two numbers a and b. Then, we can just take the absolute value by using the Math.abs function.
Finally, it's time to print the result. Using system.out.println() (assuming the long variable r holds the result):
Now we are basically done, all that remains is to combine the above parts.
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The sample data provided in the problem statement is just there to help you make sure you understood what the problem asks for, and the input/output format. When you submit your solution, we will run it on an extensive set of additional test data to verify that it solves the problem correctly and efficiently.
When we run your solution, the first case(s) are always the sample case(s). If you fail on these, make sure that:
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The sample data is used to illustrate and clarify the problem. If you believe there is an error in the sample data, your interpretation of the problem is probably wrong. Consider if there is an alternative interpretation which matches the sample data.
No, however we allow you to submit your solution multiple times so you can test your way to the right solution.
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Uncaught java exceptions will almost always be judged as Run Time Errors with some extra information. For a few exceptions, you will get to know what the exception was (but no stack trace or line number), for most you will just be informed that you got an uncaught exception. Exceptions relating to memory exhaustion will be judged Memory Limit Exceeded, for obvious reasons.
The mainclass is the class containing the entry point (main method) of your program. It is a method that looks like this:
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As you can submit multiple classes, there can potentially be multiple such methods. Therefore you need to specify which class contains the main method we should use. Note that the mainclass must contain the full name of the class. If you declare a package, it must be included (or we will not find your class). For example, if your class name is "Solution" and it is in package "fuzzy" your mainclass should be "fuzzy.Solution".
Specifying the wrong mainclass will give you a Compile Error telling you what happened.
It is, as far as we are aware, impossible to do fast I/O in Java without going through immense pains. If you know better, we'd be very grateful to hear about it. It is, however, quite possible to get decent I/O speeds with only small efforts.
There are several things which will cause input in Java to be slow. One such thing is the Scanner class, which even though it is quite handy and easy to use, tends to be very slow even for such a simple task as reading a stream of integers.
Another very important thing is to always make sure that both input and output are buffered, by using e.g. the BufferedReader and BufferedOutputStream classes.
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WASHINGTON - Charting a collision course with the White House, the Republican-controlled House approved legislation Friday to wipe out the 3-year-old health care law that President Barack Obama has vowed to preserve - and simultaneously prevent a partial government shutdown that neither party claims to want.
"The American people don't want the government shut down, and they don't want "Obamacare," Speaker John Boehner said as members of his rank and file cheered at a celebratory rally in the Capitol moments after the 230-189 vote. He stood at a lectern bearing a slogan that read, "#Senate must act."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it will - but not the way Boehner and his tea party-heavy Republican contingent want. Assured of enough Senate votes to keep the government open and the health care law in existence, the Nevada Democrat accused Republicans of attempting "to take an entire law hostage simply to appease the tea party anarchists."
Behind the rhetoric lay the likelihood of another in a series of complex, inside-the-Beltway brinkmanship episodes as conservative House Republicans and Obama struggle to imprint widely differing views on the U.S. government.
In addition to the threat of a partial shutdown a week from Monday, administration officials say that without passage of legislation to allow more federal borrowing, the nation faces the risk of a first-ever default sometime in the second half of next month.
House Republicans intend to vote to raise the nation's debt limit next week to prevent that from happening. But they have said they will include a one-year delay in Obamacare in the measure to reinforce their determination to eradicate the program.
The same bill will include provisions to reduce deficits and stay the administration's environmental agenda as the GOP seeks gains for its own priorities. Raising the cost of Medicare for financially better-off beneficiaries is one likely provision to be added, according to numerous officials. So, too, is a ban on federal regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.
Obama, who has said repeatedly he will not negotiate over debt limit legislation, called Boehner late in the day to tell him that directly. The speaker expressed disappointment, his office said, and responded that Congress "will chart the path ahead." The White House said Obama also called House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
Obama responded in remarks before an audience at a Ford assembly plant near Kansas City, Mo.
He blamed a "faction on the far right of the Republican Party" for threatening to shut down government operations or default on government debts. "They're focused on trying to mess with me," he told plant workers. "They're not focused on you."
Unlike other budget showdowns of the recent past, this one pits younger Republicans in the House against GOP veterans in the Senate, although not to the extent it does one party against the other.
Republicans are united in their opposition to the health care law, which they say will force the price of coverage higher and prompt employers to reduce work hours for workers. But they disagree on how to attack it.
The bill that won passage on Friday was all but forced on Boehner and fellow House GOP leaders, who fear a repeat of the twin government shutdowns nearly two decades ago that inflicted serious political damage on Republicans.
Caution on the part of GOP elders was overwhelmed by tea party-aligned lawmakers, who were in turn responding to the urgings of outside groups and their allies in the Senate, Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah among them.
The vote in the House was almost completely along party lines, and the administration threatened in advance to veto the bill if it should pass the Senate as well. Among Democrats, only Reps. Mike McIntyre of North Carolina and Jim Matheson of Utah supported the measure. Virginia Rep. Scott Rigell was the only Republican voting against it.
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Instead, the likelihood is that the Senate will strip off the provision to defund the health care law, as well a different section that prioritizes debt payments in the event the Treasury lacks the funds to meet all its obligations. Reid and other Democrats then plan to send back to the House a bill whose sole purpose would be to prevent any interruption in government services on Oct. 1.
The next move would be up to Boehner and his famously fractious rank and file. Unless they decide to surrender quickly, they could respond with yet another attack on the health care law, perhaps a one-year delay in the requirement for individuals to purchase insurance. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky backs legislation to that effect, and Obama has already announced a one-year postponement in a requirement for businesses to provide coverage to their employees.
In recent years, the threat of massive interruptions in government services has waned as agencies refine their plans for possible shutdowns, but lawmakers cautioned the effects could be harmful.
"Our brave men and women of our military don't get paid; our recovering economy will take a huge hit, and our most vulnerable citizens - including the elderly and veterans who rely on critical government programs and services - could be left high and dry," said Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky.
Associated Press writers Alan Fram and, Andrew Taylor in Washington and Josh Lederman in Missouri contributed.


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What I learnt from Venice:
When we give people (or nature) the space and love they need
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Market value plus accruals.
Variable Interest Rate
An interest rate which fluctuates as the prevailing rate moves up or down. In mortgages there are usually maximums as to the frequency and amount of fluctuation. Also called "flexible interest rate".
Veterans Administration VA
An independent agency of the federal government created in 1930. The VA home loan guaranty program is designed to encourage lenders to offer long-term, low downpayment mortgages to eligible veterans by guaranteeing the lender against loss.